Sentences with phrase «performative act of»

Nicholas Hlobo would translate the isiXhosa phrase Zawelela ngale as «They have crossed to the other side» and by this he describes the performative act of transgressing, crossing a border, or things that have transcended onto another state.

For me, landscape painting extends beyond observation and formal concerns, drawing on bodily sensations, energy from the nervous system, time awareness, muscle memory, an education in twentieth - century art, and the performative act of mark - making.

The material took on the shape of the space around it, serving as a document of the performative act of the work being made.

The works on view remind us that art captures and contains as much it reveals — be it the passage of time or the performative act of creation itself.

Stepping aside from performance as a medium and the performative act of production, best characterised by Mota's studio - based compositions, her recent exhibition at the gallery, marks a major shift in the practice of the artist, materialising a new form of sculptural animism and a new agency, while shifting the instrumentalization of the performative into a series of coincidental and strictly conceptual acts.

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«A nation is a super - individual that is a phenomenological constant resulting from performative acts in which individuals communicate and pool positively charged substance, including the charged space of territory and the charged story of the past.»

One way of thinking about critical pedagogy in these terms is to think of it as both a way of understanding education as well as a way of highlighting the performative nature of agency as an act of participating in shaping the world in which we live.

The act of painting the performative nature, creates an artwork larger than painting itself.

In contrast to Rosenberg's conception of painting as a performative act, Greenberg's theory, influenced by Clive Bell and T. S. Eliot, was essentially a formal one — in fact, it eventually evolved into what would be called «formalism.»

Luna, whose heritage is Pooyukitchm (Luiseno) / Ipi (Diegueno) and Mexican American, recreates himself in the aptly titled James Pollock, reversing through this performative act a moment in the colonial appropriation of Native peoples.

The notion of painting as process and activity, or even as performative act, is explored in moving images.

At SBC she initiated the long - term research - based Focus Program on the topic of Sovereignty, research supported by her Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship for Not I: The Performative Speech Act and the Sovereign Subject.

What he and Monet share, that followed from his Rouen cathedral series and the exploration of light, is the gestural application of color and the performative element applied to the act of painting.

2014 ACTS - Festival for Performative Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark (forthcoming) «Flying: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Kate Millett,» School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London, England (forthcoming) «WoWmen!»

The hosiery layers are artifacts of a private performative act in which the artist wraps herself in hosiery material to enact a series of precise body positions, recorded while sleeping, into pools of acrylic paint on a canvas.

It is in this manner, for example, that Jessica Warboys «Sea Paintings» came into existence — a performative act between her and the tides of the sea — in which she allows the waves of ocean to interact with the pigments upon a canvas.

Moreover, the brushstroke and the choreography of shapes attest to what can be described as a performative act, one that offers a navigable experience for the viewer pointing to the legacy of abstract expressionism.

With this connectivity in mind, this exhibition of performative and interactive works challenges the role of the audience and engages it in acts of play and storytelling.

As a kind of performative act — a «maintenance action,» as he called it — he not only cleaned the house but also removed window trim and baseboards, sanded the floors, and preserved cracks and discolorations in the walls with polyurethane, to expose the house's skeleton and excavate its history.

An accomplished musician, Biggers often incorporates performative elements into his sculptures and installations, resulting in multilayered works that act as anecdotal vignettes, full of wit and clear formal intent.

Infusing a poetic sensuality into Minimalism's legacy, Gabriel Orozco's works vary from sculptural triumphs to more ephemeral, performative acts, such as rolling a huge ball of plasticine, of exactly his own body weight, through the streets in order to «get an impression» of the world around him.

They will present a one - evening series of performative acts as well as a group show with works by James Hoff, Franziska Lantz, Deborah Ligorio, Mara Ploscaru, Nicolò Russian and Priscilla Tea, which will open the same night.

Initially conceived for the 13th Baltic Triennial - Prelude, CAC, Vilnius in September 2017, the performative installation investigates the act of reading as an intimate experience, holding the potentiality to become public performance through the «outlouding» of words.

Since 2000 she has written extensively on the documentation of performance art (After the Act: The (Re) presentation of Performance Art, 2006) and performative curatorial practices and has curated numerous exhibitions and performance series in Europe as well as North America, including the series After the Act, Again and Against and Push and Pull (2005 - 2011) at the Museum of Modern art (MUMOK) in Vienna and TATE Modern in London.

Despite their abstraction, West's films are highly referential, even documentary in nature, acting as a record of the specific time, place, location, participants and performative actions involved.

«OTMA's Body,» on view until February 25th at Gavin Brown's Grand Street location in New York's lower east side, acts as a retrospective of sorts, showcasing garments previously worn during performative fashion shows, alongside patchwork furniture and oversized plush toys.

In fact, in the same period that Rosenberg was writing and painters were «acting,» a variety of critics were decidedly unhappy about this nascent performative discourse.

Abramović's new and vibrant interpretation of the original work invites the viewer to engage in the dynamic and performative artistic act which Abramović is widely known for.

These often generative projects grow with time and require continuous input, resulting in performative acts as part of the work.As a Polish artist whose formative years were divided between communist Poland, refugee camps in Denmark, and post-unification Germany, the intersections of economic and political structures are integral to Wisniowski's practice.

For the artist the act of publishing is itself performative and Ikon's exhibition includes a wide archive of previously unseen publications and ephemera.

By MATTHEW NASH Andrew Mowbray is a sculptor in the tradition of Joseph Beuys, whose objects exist to facilitate a performative act, and remain as tangible evidence of that experience.

Adelita Husni - Bey's «Frangente / Breaker» at Museo del Novecento is a performance in three acts that combines a site - specific project with a performative reinterpretation of a sound work from 2013 and a public action, brought together as a single reflection on authorship, on barriers, borders, and nationalism, and on the perception of otherness.

Drawers act metaphorically perhaps, but also offer a performative aspect to the paintings, the placement of the drawer itself as well as the hiding and revealing of the body, and like Himid's earlier «paintings on wood», these works offer the possibility of being looked at in different ways by placing the draw this way or that.

Through the act of permission, Grokhovsky shared the maker's privilege of accessing the work physically, as well as the experience of pleasure in making it, juxtaposing the visual pleasure of viewing versus physical experience of performative actions.

IMMA25 Meets... Jesse Jones, 1st April 2015 IMMA25 presented a special screening of Jesse Jones» The Selfish Act of Community, followed by a discussion with the artist on the role of the group encounter therapy session in both The Selfish Act of Community and The Other North and how it may enact a performative constellation of wider political impulses within a society.

Sound becomes a medium of performing history and, in turn, listening a performative act.

Often taking the form of performative acts that extend from or relate to a particular space or place, Maxime's projects conceptually engage in chronotopic explorations that excavate and interweave layers of histories, forms, relations, and meanings embedded within geographies, while underscoring latent and evident power dynamics.

Each orb was formed from a single exhalation of the glass - blower, making each a fragile representation of the act of breathing, drawing a strong relationship to the body and via this, generating a performative self - awareness in relation to the work physically in the visitor as they tread delicately through the gallery.

IMMA25 Meets... Jesse Jones, 1st April 2015 IMMA25 presented a special screening of Jesse Jones» (External) The Selfish Act of Community, followed by a discussion with the artist on the role of the group encounter therapy session in both The Selfish Act of Community and The Other North and how it may enact a performative constellation of wider political impulses within a society.

In his solo exhibition TOGETHER APART at Kunstverein Braunschweig he concentrates on a central aspect of the performative act: the spoken word.

«Both artists utilize the act of self - portraiture as an exercise of agency through performative self - creation.

As if acting as the underbelly to the rapacious actuality in EAPR # 34, the vignette captured in EAPR # 35 exposes the ensuing trauma that occurs in the wings as we strive to fulfill our socially performative roles — most of which remain immutably out of reach.

Each print, priced at $ 2,500, has three iterations in which the image is increasingly obliterated — a trace of a performative act, which also makes each piece unique.

It extended the work into the realm of a performative act, in which the process of making it is as important as the finished piece.Understanding that the advent of the written word arrived as the capacity of human memory deteriorated situates the portraits as a kind of documentation that might extend the reach of collective memory and historical consciousness.

We first saw Khan's work at NADA Miami in 2017, where she exhibited her handmade «psychedelic prayer rugs,» in which the repetitive patternmaking acted as a performative exploration of emigration and displacement.

Entitled Echoes & Reverberations, this exhibition explores sound as a medium of performing history and the nature of listening as a performative act through the work of seven artists, including four new commissions.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist on the role of the group encounter therapy session in both The Selfish Act of Community and The Other North and how it may enact a performative constellation of wider political impulses within a society.